glimpsin

Updated: May 13, 2025

And you looked, like you was glimpsin' heaven a'most, and just said sorter solemn like an' prophetic: 'I see a land fair as the Garden of Eden, with grazing herds on broad meadows, and fields on fields of wheat, and groves and little lakes and rivers a land of comfortable homes and schoolhouses and churches, and no saloons nor breweries. And then I broke in and told you I see a danged fool, and you says, 'Come down here in twenty-five year and make a hunt for me then. And, by golly, Aydelot, here I am.

Margaret Hill McCarter - Winning the Wilderness

But the fool mules don't care; it's ecstacy to simply know she's livin' an' that mule's cup of joy is runnin' over who finds himse'f permitted to crop grass within forty foot of his old, gray bell-bedecked idol. "We travels all day, followin' glimpsin' that flea-bitten cayouse at Tramperos. But the mules can't think or talk of nothin' else.

Alfred Henry Lewis - Wolfville Nights